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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hello, Aphra Behners,
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It is a tremendously exciting fall season for the ABS, with our biannual conference
coming up this month. The Aphra Behn Society is partnering with the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) and the Northeast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) in a conference at McMaster University, October 27-29, 2011:
<a href="http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~csecs/">http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~csecs/</a>. If you are planning to attend the conference, you can renew your ABS membership when you register for the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Aphra Behn Society annual meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon, October 29,
1:15-2:15 in the Beckett Room. The meeting is open to the membership. I not only invite but encourage all members to attend, to meet the officers of the Society, and most importantly, to contribute to the discussions of upcoming initiatives and events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If we won’t have the pleasure of seeing you at the conference, I hope we shall see you
at the ABS panels at ASECS in San Antonio, 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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